Porno Pete Sweats Over His Hate Movement’s Decline

Big Gay Inc. is also in the vanguard of pushing Christians and moral-minded people out of the Public Square. Central to its ability to transform society’s mores is its drive to silence and discredit opposing views…Their Orwellian strategy is working. The collapse of America’s Judeo-Christian moral consensus has been as swift as it is stunning. Consider this: Just six decades and a few years ago, homosexuality was such a taboo that Harry Hay, an early “gay” activist who conceived of the idea of homosexuals as a “minority” (like racial minorities), could hardly find enough open homosexuals in the nation to join him in forming a “homophile” rights group (Source: “The Trouble with Harry Hay,” by Stuart Timmons).

Fast forward to today: fanatical homosexual activists like Wayne Besen of “Truth Wins Out,” which pressured Tebow to cancel the appearance at Jeffress’ “hate church” (Besen’s smear term; he also called it a “bigot church), and then applauded him for doing so – now fight to make opposition to homosexuality taboo. The homosexual lobby is working to ban pro-heterosexual change therapy, and “gay” militants and lawyers insist that their newfangled “LGBT rights” trump even religious freedom when the two collide, as they invariably do.

It appears that even this stalwart homo-hater, who slithers around gay porn palaces and scurries about licentious leather bars looking for smut to post on his prurient website, knows the end is near. It is clear that there is a shrinking market for professional gay bashers and one can only hope he polishes off his cracker-thin resume and finds a new gig before it is too late. Since he has so much experience visiting the tubs in Chicago, and is likely a familiar face, maybe they will be kind and offer him an exciting, new opportunity cleaning the cubicles.

Porno Pete is basically wrong on everything:

He writes that we are “pushing Christians and moral-minded people out of the Public Square.” In truth, it is the LGBT community that was cruelly banished from being seen or heard in pubic for hundreds of years. In the mid-20th Century we began asserting our right to exist and challenging rampant misinformation. Today, we share the public square with fundamentalist Christians and both sides have aired their respective cases on gay rights ad nauseam. It just so happens that we won these debates and the American people have soundly rejected the incoherent and irrational arguments employed by damaged people like Peter LaBarbera. So, it isn’t that fundies are not welcome in the public square, it’s just that people aren’t buying what they are selling. Peter should come up with better arguments than, “look how ‘those people’ do it, gross.” His puerile and disgraceful efforts to stigmatize LGBT people have backfired and there is virtually no future for such bigotry.

Porno Pete objects to me and others calling Rev. Robert Jeffress a hater who runs a hate church. However, if one looks at the verifiable lies and anti-gay speech used by Jefress, the “hate” label is accurate.

Pete writes: “‘Gay’ militants and lawyers insist that their newfangled ‘LGBT rights’ trump even religious freedom when the two collide, as they invariably do.” Again, this is inaccurate and designed to scare his handful of followers into ponying up some dough to support his dying group. Our position is that fundamentalists live in America and have to abide by laws that are written to be followed by all citizens. People like Porno Pete don’t get to claim special rights and carve out exceptions to the law simply because they are religious. They don’t get to impose a form of Christian Sharia, forcing everyone to follow the rules of their favored church. Furthermore, religious freedom does not clash with LGBT rights, this is a phony issue and a figment of the extreme right’s imagination. This who line of phony argument is rather new, and was invented because appeals to outright discrimination no longer resonate. Whining about loss of “religious liberty” is a just one more cynical ploy to justify denying LGBT people full access to the American Dream.

As more LGBT people come out each day; as more heterosexual allies speak up in unexpected arenas like churches, NBA basketball courts, enlightened Republican circles, and NFL football fields; the ugly lies peddled by Porno Pete and his ilk are rendered ineffective. This is just an unpleasant reality that professional gay-haters will have to wrap their heads around.

Well, I’ve written enough about the increasingly irrelevant antics of Porno Pete. I imagine that we will be writing less and less about him, as his stumbling movement loses steam by the day. There will be a time in the very near future when nobody cares what he has to say and he will be shunned and ignored by polite and decent society. Porno Pete should enjoy the limited cyber-ink he is now getting, because it will soon dry up as the sun sets on his failed crusade and disgraceful career that will surely embarrass his children and grandchildren.

About the Author

Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

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21 Comments

SteveMarch 1, 2013 at 11:38 am -

Freedom of religion is way overrated. Once upon a time it used to mean that you didn’t get thrown in jail or killed merely for professing a certain belief. Since then it has mutated into a cancer used to oppress everyone else. It’s way past time that the US returned to the original meaning.

Priya LynnMarch 1, 2013 at 12:13 pm -

It certainly is sweet to watch Porno Pete in anguish over his inevitable loss of the war he started.

Todd in DCMarch 1, 2013 at 1:27 pm -

Freedom of religion means:

freedom to suppress and oppress anyone we want to and use religion as an excuse.

It means, I can impose any belief I want on the populous at large and can stifle all opposition to it as a result of my belif.

It means I can discriminate against any minority in the form of job discrimination, housing discrimination, marriage privileges, and even making certain sexual activites illegal as part of my beliefs.

That is freedom of religion, as the right sees it.

RainbowPhoenixMarch 1, 2013 at 1:33 pm -

Maybe when the money flow shifts he’ll finally come out of the closet.

GianniMarch 1, 2013 at 1:38 pm -

Our dear Pete doesn’t need to get a new job; he needs to get a REAL job. You know, operate machinery, construction, meat inspector…..do something that produces something, eases people’s burdens, helps the poor/needy……….something more useful than raking in money from people who hate and want to crush their fellow citizens because of innate, personal differences. Pete, you stink more than any dump.

emmaMarch 1, 2013 at 2:05 pm -

Keep up your “fanatical homosexual activism” Wayne!

BooMarch 1, 2013 at 2:52 pm -

Thank you Wayne, for teaching me a new word. :-)

JackMarch 1, 2013 at 5:52 pm -

There are two other points that he asserts:

(1) “fanatical homosexual activists . . . fight to make opposition to homosexuality taboo.” “Fanatical” is irrelevant. “Activist” understates the situation. And no one is looking to make opposition to homosexuality taboo. Rather, the movement is for legal equality. IF that provides social equality, even better. But just as interracial couples still receive stares, just as biracial children are aske “what are you,” and just as a black person showing up in a white area (oh, and just as black and white ‘hoods still exist) elicits suspicion despite 50 years of legal equality, homosexuals will still be stared at, chased, beaten up, and otherwise discriminated against. But more and more people will find that kind of behavior intolerable and will speak up against it. No taboo.

(2) The homosexual lobby is working to ban pro-heterosexual change therapy. Homosexuals in general are trying to ban a bogus therapy that does not good while it has been shown to do harm. I suppose, though, that if a gay person has unreasonable fear of heterosexuals, that there must be some sort of effective pro-het therapy.

Rod Roddy lookalikeMarch 1, 2013 at 6:23 pm -

Meat inspector?!? Wow….what irony!!!

Gary (NJ)March 1, 2013 at 10:45 pm -

I think Pete and Donald Trump have the same coiffeur.

BooMarch 2, 2013 at 3:17 pm -

Jack- of course we want it to be taboo, but a social taboo not a legal one. What Pete doesn’t seem to understand is that he has no Constituional right to not be viewed as a bigot.

PhilMarch 2, 2013 at 8:20 pm -

Poor Porno Pete. His future looks so bleak! He really should just finish himself off – maybe drink some drain opener or throw himself in front of a train……

I’m with you Phil! We must strive to make our enemies pain in failure so excrusiating they’ll never challenge us again. After all, it wasn’t “social justice” which won the day for Black people in America. It was FEAR. Fear they would start a new civil war. Fear they would continue to burn down businesses and riot. Fear they would take up arms and destroy the house of cards Mr. Bigot has so carefully set up. One of the main reasons victory has been so long in coming, so difficult and s.l.o.w. is that we are WHIMPS! We must resist and stand with force of will and power of speech.

Merrill — it was NEVER fear. It was families like mine, who had been part of the Underground railroad in the 1800s and continued to steadfastly support justice for all persons, and continue – through me – to do so until this day.. It was African Americans who were not afraid to march for social equality. It was churches, brave Left wing churches like Holy Trinity Episcopal in Brooklyn Heights that struggled to break the redline and which were, sometimes, closed (a parish of 800 closed by the diocese with the direct aid of the Unamerican Activities Committee — not because of Communism, but because Father Mellish broke the redline and helped a black family buy in Brooklyn Heights). And of course, exposure. over time those things led to the end of racism, or its near end — small and ignorant, there are still White youth from areas without exposure to African Americans who practice blatant racism and who even harm Black men for nothing except being black — but in general, their movement has failed.

That is what they fear with gay people. There are brave left wing churches again, and social justice advocates, and ultimately, they will lose.

Matthew Shepherd's GhostMarch 15, 2013 at 3:06 am -

Check your stats, anti-gay has risen worldwide according to the UN. They just had a report that 85% of Russians are opposed to gay marriage. Truthwinsout..gays will always be hated..

DanielMarch 15, 2013 at 11:54 am -

That doesn’t mean it’s risen. What was it before.

And you are disgusting defaming (and misspelling) the name of a young man who was murdered in a horrible way.

emmaMarch 19, 2013 at 2:43 pm -

except for hot lesbians in the porno’s straight men like to watch, they’re okay.

Priya LynnMarch 19, 2013 at 3:05 pm -

Mmmmmm, hot lesbians…

Priya LynnMarch 15, 2013 at 12:27 pm -

MSG, there’s a reason why you didn’t provide a link to this alleged report.

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